Soweto-based entrepreneur Mpumelelo Mtintso and six friends are planning a five-day bicycle journey to Kimberley in the Northern Cape to raise R100,000 for two school ...
OPINION: South Africa’s ‘Working for Water’ programme was designed to control invasive alien plants while providing employment and skills training to unemployed ...
OPINION: The illegal trade of South Africa’s unique succulents, including species from the Succulent Karoo Biome spanning the Northern Cape, is driven by global ...
When a white beluga whale suspected of spying for Moscow was found dead in Norwegian waters, the animal soon became a minor celebrity.
A recent study at Kurukop, a rock art site in the Northern Cape, suggests that a distinct echo may have influenced ancient artists, with most petroglyphs placed ...
OPINION: The book ‘Darkest Before Dawn’, edited by Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher, presents readers with a portrait of a formidable and principled figure in the ...
FEATURE: In the Northern Cape's Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, researchers found that white-browed sparrow weaver families build uniquely styled roosts, showcasing group-specific ...
INSIGHT: Oakhurst rock shelter, an archaeological site in South Africa, reveals a remarkable 12,000-year record of human occupation, including ancient genomes that ...
INSIGHT: Students from three continents are reshaping education through a global, collaborative classroom that turns traditional learning on its head.
INSIGHT: Agricultural economist Saul Ngarava studied 1,184 homes in South Africa’s Northern Cape, North West and Eastern Cape provinces to see which types of water ...
INSIGHT: Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the sun, are just a few of the topics that are on the table ...
INSIGHT: Although the field is still very new, my review of the research so far shows that film therapy can be effective at helping people process difficult emotions ...
INSIGHT: With two different strains of avian flu causing outbreaks in the country, a specialist in poultry health answers some questions put to him by The Conversation ...
OPINION: We recently conducted research to establish the various factors that explain higher rates of TB among men in South Africa. Our main finding was that men ...
OPINION: African Parks plans to release the total Platinum Rhino ranch population, currently 2,000 rhino (amounting to roughly 15% of the global white rhino population), ...
OPINION: As a conductor, musician and educator, I’m excited about games like “Starfield” because they’re drawing people to symphonic music like never before, writes ...
The subject of a hit 1980s TV show and of many books, Shaka is reframed by each generation.
Study shows a rise in civic dishonesty in countries with high levels of organised crime in the private and public sphere because citizens more easily justify their ...
Opera stardom did not surreptitiously land in her lap. Instead, home, church and school singing was foundational.
OPINION: Before its much anticipated release, AKA had been proclaiming he wasn’t merely a hip hop mainstay but also a pop music juggernaut. There’s some truth to ...
There’s a bewildering array of jargon to sift through and many elements to consider, from the right kind of inverter to the size of your solar panels.
Climate change is causing droughts in much of Africa to become longer and more severe. The African savannah elephant is listed as endangered and if the situation ...
OPINION: Call it the Putin effect – Russia’s war on Ukaine is speeding up the global shift away from fossil fuels, writes Rachel Kyte.
Although cannabis, and cannabis-derived products, such as CBD, may be widely used for reducing pain, how effective it really is in doing this is unclear, writes ...
People tend to be puzzled when they learn that they share the same false memories with other people. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and ...